Five Plates
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Overview
Five Plates is a meal planning web app that generates a full week of dinner recipes tailored to a family of five. Parents specify their dietary preferences, desired cuisines, and time budget, then receive five dinner recipes plus a consolidated shopping list with portions and quantities already calculated for their household size. The tool cuts meal planning time and guesswork out of family dinner prep.
Mission
What we're building
Five Plates — a meal planning web app for families. A parent picks their preferences (diet, cuisine, time budget) and gets a full week of dinner recipes plus a consolidated shopping list — built for a family of five, so portions and grocery quantities are dialled in from the start.
Current focus
The MVP: a single-page web app where a visitor can generate a 5-dinner weekly meal plan with recipes and a combined shopping list. No accounts, no payment — just the core "plan my week" flow working end-to-end. A simple landing page frames the tool and explains what Five Plates does. The meal plans will be generated from a curated recipe database (we'll seed 30–50 recipes to start), with sensible defaults for a family of five.